@Rodriguez
It is very much open world
Obviously there is a story and campaign progression, but you can drive,glide,swim or ride a jetski all over the map.
Lots to see and do.
Get it, the game and gameworld are excellent.
Just checked my game completion time, it was 11 hours, so plenty of bang for your buck.
Re time, I did everything you could do,collect. Also 400/400 gamerpoints

I've liberated about 5 or 6 garrisons now. What are people's preferred methods?

I have been driving one of the jeeps with the mounted railgun (does it have a proper name?) into range then letting the bullets fly. One garrison was a bit trickier - it had a chopper, and quite a bit of back up appeared from behind me.

Mission wise I have completed the Blood Dragon hatchery (loved the escape sequence) and have decided to spend some time collecting items and liberating garrisons.

I don't know how you do it. I still haven't done Bioshock Infinite, never mind even looked at blood dragon yet and you've 100% it already!

Edit: It'll be interesting to see what you make of FC3 when Jono gets it to you after you playing this first.

Hi mate The difference is, is that I'm staying away from RPG's at the moment, as like your goodself I need to collect everything in the game world, which takes a lot of time.

You are playing rpg after rpg, I doff my Duff cap to you. I'm defo due a meaty rpg (I have about 15 across 3 consoles) but not too syre what and when.
Next month is going to be "The Last of us" so looking forward to it, although the older man/young girl mechanic, will no doubt upset me, as I will liken it to me and my daughter...and I'm a big softy like that

As for FR3 (jono is a god) I did play for a while, then sold (again!!!) as Gears was eating up ALL game time, not that I need to tell you that. GearsJ would do likewise but Iím being more brutal.

Good game this, I'm enjoying it much more than FC3. I am thinking I should probably try FC3 again though, maybe I wasn't in the right mood when I tried it before.

This is the kind of game I've been wanting for ages and not known it, there is very little not to like about it and if you grew up watching the films it borrows ideas from it can give you another layer of enjoyment.

I've done 4 main missions so far which were great but know I think I'm going to do all the garrisons and side missions before going any further with it.

I have been driving one of the jeeps with the mounted railgun (does it have a proper name?) into range then letting the bullets fly. One garrison was a bit trickier - it had a chopper, and quite a bit of back up appeared from behind me.

Mission wise I have completed the Blood Dragon hatchery (loved the escape sequence) and have decided to spend some time collecting items and liberating garrisons.

I do as much killing as I can in stealth mode with the bow, and when that inevitably fails I run around like a headless chicken with the shotty vaporising Omega Force in clouds of red mist. If I can find the thing to deactivate the shield all the better, and I let the dragons do the work for me.

Anyone finding the game clock in the stats screen wrong? Last night mine was saying 1 hour 50 minutes, but I've probably done three times that. Playing on PS3.

Alastair wrote:
Can you count on a dragon showing up if you manage to deactivate the shields?

It's pretty much guaranteed, to the extent that it feels a little artificial, like they just spawn one at the gate

Yeah, I thought that too. A shame they made it feel so forced; it would have been cool to lead one from a little way outside the base all on your own, rather than counting on it happening automatically.

Erm, what do you need for the Headshot achievement?
Also, for the Shoot 5 Braincage one, did I need to do that in the Blood Dragon hatchery mission? I just ran away from the dragons, rather than shoot them. Is there a way to go back and do it?

Alastair wrote:
Erm, what do you need for the Headshot achievement?
Also, for the Shoot 5 Braincage one, did I need to do that in the Blood Dragon hatchery mission? I just ran away from the dragons, rather than shoot them. Is there a way to go back and do it?

Get a headshot kill against ALL enemy types.
You can get the Braincage one at any time.

Sorry if its been brought up guys but does anyone have probs saving the game? It doesn't seem to recognise checkpoint saves - I haven't tried saving after finishing a level but my checkpoint progress is never saved?